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Israel, the wayward wife and adulteress, worshiping the gods of the heathen had thoroughly forsaken the true and living God. Hosea is now required to buy her back from those to whom she was in servitude. She was to be purchased with silver and barley. Silver, typifies redemption. Barley was the harvest of Passover and the main diet of the poor and animals. The Lord Jesus is our Passover. 1 Cor. 5:7 The total value of Hosea’s purchase of her fidelity was thirty pieces of silver. Half paid with silver, half with barley. Hos. 3:2 It was the price paid for a servant, a slave who had been gored by an ox. Ex. 21:32 The price Hosea paid for her foreshadows then redemption which is found in Christ Jesus. Judas sold Him for thirty pieces of silver. Mt. 26:15 In so doing he fulfilled the prophetic utterance of Zechariah as to the price paid and the eventual usage of that money. Zech. 11:12-13 Fulfilled in the purchase of the field of blood, how significant. Mt. 27:3-8.
In the dedication of a person making a special vow unto the Lord silver was the metal to be used in purchasing that vow. In the case of a female the price was thirty pieces of silver. Lev. 27:1-4 Jesus came to the Israellites Who were so far removed from the Lord that they had been four hundred years without the voice of a prophet until John the Baptist. John called their leading religious men, a generation of vipers. His was a strong cry for repentance. Though not exactly in a complementary manner. Mt. 3:5-8.
Any question as to whether or not the story of Hosea and Gomar relates to the relationship between the Lord and Israel is dispelled by the words of the Lord Jesus, when He called the people of His day an adulterous generation. Mt. 12:39, 16:4.
The Lord Jesus came to His own, having been born the King of Israel and acknowledged by the multitude. John 12:13 He came to His own people with a message of reconciliation and redemption. But they refused Him.
John 1:11-12 The kingdom of God is a kingdom of those who have been redeemed by His blood. Remember it is a kingdom of grace, not race.
Unfortunately, they were looking for one who would establish a worldly kingdom. Very much as it is being taught today but His kingdom is not of this world. His kingdom is heavenly and eternal. Then, as now, the hands of the Lord are stretched out, to a disobedient, stubborn, obstinate people. Rom. 10:21 For all that Jesus taught concerning the kingdom of God and it’s Spiritual existence, they still were looking for a king and kingdom which would be of this world. Acts 1:6 The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, that is of a natural sense but rather, righteousness, peace and joy in the blessings of the Spirit of the Lord. Rom. 14:17.